Prester John Legend Between East and West During the Crusades

Preface
Acknowledgements
Note of Transliteration and Style
List of Figures and Maps
List of Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
Historiography: Prester John between Past and Present
Objectives and Methodology
CHAPTER 1. Setting a Geographic and Mythico-historical Stage for the Prester John Legend
CHAPTER 2. Between Transmission and Reception: The Birth of the Prester John Legend and the Crusader-Muslim Conflict, 1122-1145
CHAPTER 3. The Prester John Letter and its Perception between the Crusading Crisis in the Levant and Imperial-Papal Schism in the West
CHAPTER 4. Imaging the Prester John Kingdom in the Three Indias: The Legend's Entanglements with Alexander Romance, Jewish and Arab Muslim-Christian Imagination
CHAPTER 5. Waiting for King David, Son of Prester John: The Impact of the Legend on Peace and War during the Fifth Crusade (615-618/1217-1221)
CHAPTER 6. The Mongol Figure of Prester John: Remembering the Legend and the Enterprise of Latin-Mongol Crusade(s), 1222-1300
CONCLUSION
Bibliography
Index

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